Goodreads asked George Neeb:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

George Neeb Before "Pharaoh's Arrow" was a picture book, I had written a similar story as a play for my class to perform. We were studying Ancient Egypt and I wanted my class to perform a play to get them excited about the topic. I couldn't find a play, so I wrote one. The play dealt with a regular Egyptian family coming face to face with Almighty Pharaoh. The class did a great job with the play but then I moved to a younger grade and filed the play away for about 20 years! Recently, our curriculum changed to include Egypt again. I dug out the play and used the idea to write this picture book. I love Egyptian style art, so I did the illustrations in that style and had a lot of fun creating the book.

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